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16Performance in Confucian Role EthicsIn James Behuniak (ed.), Appreciating the Chinese Difference: Engaging Roger T. Ames on Methods, Issues, and Roles, Suny Press. pp. 213-228. 2018.
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Life and death in rock : a meditation on stone memorialsIn Jeanette Bicknell, Carolyn Korsmeyer & Jennifer Judkins (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins, Monuments, and Memorials, Routledge. 2019.
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7The Age of German Idealism: Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 6 (edited book)Routledge. 2003.German Idealism was one of the most fertile and important movements in the history of Western philosophy. This volume includes eleven chapters on all aspects and the period's most influential philosophers, including Kant and Hegel
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21Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated Readings, Tenth Edition is a thorough introduction to the core problems of philosophy, including explanations and background by the authors along with generous excerpts from the philosophers under discussion. Organized topically, the chapters present alternative perspectives-including analytic, continental, feminist, and non-Western viewpoints-alongside the historical works of major philosophers. The text provides the course materials that allow ins…Read more
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14Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (edited book)Springer. 2017.This volume examines the motives behind rejections of beauty often found within contemporary art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately ugly and alienating. It reflects on the nature and value of beauty, asking whether beauty still has a future in art and what role it can play in our lives generally. The volume discusses the possible “end of art,” what art is, and the relation between art and beauty beyond their historically Western horizons to include perspectives from As…Read more
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38Beauty and Its Kitsch CompetitorsIn Peg Zeglin Brand (ed.), Beauty Matters, Indiana University Press. pp. 87-111. 2000.One of the reasons for the disappearance of beauty in the artistic ideology of the late twentieth century has been the seeming similarity of beauty to certain kinds of kitsch. Beauty has also been associated with flawlessness and with glamour. I will content that the flawless and the glamorous are actually categories of kitsch, and that the dominance of these images in marketing has contributed to our societal tendency to confuse them with beauty. The quests for flawlessness and glamour are both…Read more
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8Atomism, Art, and ArthurIn Ernest Lepore & Mark Rollins (eds.), Danto and his Critics, Wiley‐blackwell. 2012.This chapter contains sections titled: Hegel, Hegelianism, and Historicism The Old Chisholm Trail: Historical Facts, Bits of Knowledge Artworks, The Artworld, and The Brillo Box Revolution The End of Art: Not the End at All Individualism Triumphant Danto and Nietzsche: A Hegelian Synthesis.
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51Zarathustra’s Stammer as a Way of LifeInternational Studies in Philosophy 20 (2): 117-122. 1988.
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31Nietzsche, The Body and Culture (review)International Studies in Philosophy 26 (1): 98-99. 1994.
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61Nietzsche’s View of Philosophical Style: CommentsInternational Studies in Philosophy 18 (2): 83-86. 1986.
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34Music's Role in Relation to Phenomenological Aspects of GriefJournal of Consciousness Studies 29 (9-10): 128-149. 2022.Music is often utilized in the context of bereavement, yet its role has been underemphasized in the literature on grief. I will suggest that the experience of grief disrupts the bereaved individual's functioning in bodily, orientational, emotional, and interpersonal terms. Music can help assuage the distress of grief in connection with each of these aspects. I will consider some aspects of grief that music is well-suited to address and indicate ways that musical experience can affect them.
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78Music in Confucian and Neo-Confucian PhilosophyInternational Philosophical Quarterly 20 (4): 433-451. 1980.This article proposes to discuss the role of music within confucian philosophy as a whole and within neo-Confucian philosophy in particular. The discussion includes a consideration of the construction of chinese music; philosophical correlations drawn between musical elements and features of both macrocosm and microcosm; musical aesthetics in the confucian and neo-Confucian philosophical systems; and affinities between the nature of music and the broader outlook of confucian and neo-Confucian ph…Read more
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7Language, Mind and Art: Essays in Appreciation and Analysis in Honor of Paul ZiffJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 (4): 386-387. 1996.
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14Zoltan Somhegyi’s Reviewing the Past: The Aesthetics, Irony, and Authenticity of Ruins (review)Philosophia 50 (4): 1529-1536. 2022.Ironies are implicit in the title of Zoltan Somhegyi’s book Reviewing the Past: The Presence of Ruins, and this is in keeping with ruins’ own paradoxical character as manifesting endurance and fragility, presence and absence, vivid physicality and an import that is almost entirely reflective. By inviting readers to take a desultory approach to the sequence of the book’s chapters, the author positions them to be active co-explorers of ruins who are reflective about their responses. Somhegyi analy…Read more
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318. Putting the Dead in Their PlaceIn Peter D. Hershock & Roger T. Ames (eds.), Philosophies of Place: An Intercultural Conversation, University of Hawaii Press. pp. 318-328. 2019.
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41The Cambridge Companion to NietzschePhilosophical Review 107 (2): 340. 1998.This collection of essays fairly exhibits the diversity of opinions about and approaches to the study of Nietzsche within the contemporary academy’s influential and far flung Nietzsche establishment. Notwithstanding the absence of feminist interpretations of Nietzsche and despite the omission of chapters that take seriously Nietzsche’s debt to the ancients, critique of the spirit of democracy, defense of a rank order of desires and souls, recurring articulations of an aristocratic politics, atta…Read more
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1Grief and human connection in The plagueIn Peg Brand Weiser (ed.), Camus's _The Plague_: Philosophical Perspectives, Oxford University Press. 2023.
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21Living with Solomon Living with Nietzsche: A Reply to Tubert and SollJournal of Nietzsche Studies 46 (3): 451-463. 2015.ABSTRACT In Living with Nietzsche, Robert C. Solomon defends the view that Nietzsche is an existentialist avant la lettre, a view that I defend. I concur with Ariela Tubert that her case that Nietzsche is a skeptic about metaphysical freedom supports Solomon's position, even if he did not necessarily see Nietzsche as holding a skeptical view. I counter Ivan Soll's arguments against Solomon's view that Nietzsche was mainly interested in promoting the life of passion, which Soll takes as insuffici…Read more
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39. Moral EquivalentsIn Roger T. Ames Peter D. Hershock (ed.), Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence, University of Hawaii Press. pp. 185-197. 2015.
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10Positioning and Discernment: A Comment on Monique Roelofs', The Cultural Promise of the AestheticContemporary Aesthetics 14. 2016.Monique Roelofs’s The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic is groundbreaking in its nuanced account of the potential and limitations of the aesthetic for creating a more just, humane world. Particularly timely are Roelofs’s analyses of the ways in which racial and gender stereotypes are reinforced and the operations of what she calls “racialized aesthetic nationalism,” the tendencies of aesthetic values to shore up schisms along racial, ethnic, and national lines. I raise questions, however, about …Read more
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |